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The Solidarity of Islam 43
Muhammad is most sharply emphasized.
The founder of Christianity
neither wrote,
nor left instructions for the preservation
of His teachings ;
His method is best
typified by His own favourite illustration ;
His message
is a seed, growing of its own
living life, mysteriously, silently, slowly,
producing fruit after its kind indeed, but
each several fruit during each several
season its
drawing own share of nourishment
even as it drew its life directly
from the
and distinct from any other.
root, original
Muhammad spoke,
in the most literal
sense, the last word ;
the teaching
has
crystallized
; principle and detail are alike
unyielding.
Muhammad was a statesman as well as Muhama
poet he had in view not m^ ; only the s
r 1 i j ^11 Vision
conversion or the world to God and to
himself, but also a world kingdom based
upon the religious idea ;
and for the
second end he worked possibly even "better
than he knew."